of course tax cuts are a tool used by keynesians. and tax increases. something that traditional keynesians are against in bad times. we always hear about austerity in great britain, a cross europe. there'll be talks about the spending cuts. but we never hear about the tax increases. and when you start talking about that, talk about the fact that they cut spending, slash spending at the same time they hike taxes, it really was a formula made to fail. >> spending cuts and tax increases have more or less the same effect. they both take money out of the economy. they both slow the economy. and, yes, they create this idea of austerity. but, look, it's a balancing problem. you need on the one hand to deal with as you well know budget deficits and debt. and on the other hand you need to keep growth going. here's an interesting thing i saw over the weekend just briefly. the recession in greece which is actually a depression, if you line it up against the u.s. great depression in 1929, it looks a lot a like in terms of how much unemployment there is, how much t